Locked-Out Gas Workers Protest National Grid
Gas workers, locked-out by National Grid in a contract dispute, protested at a company work site on Main Street in Malden today. National Grid has locked-out some 1,200 members of…Continue Reading →
Photos: Rally Against Family Separation: ‘This Is About Babies Scattered All Across This Country’
Tens of thousands gathered this morning for “Together and Free: Rally Against Family Separation,” which began with speeches at on Boston City Hall Plaza then marched to Boston Common for…Continue Reading →
‘Stop Trump’s Child Concentration Camps’: MA State House Rally To Protect Immigrants
A “State House Action To Protect Immigrant Families In Massachusetts” attracted thousands of people to the Massachusetts State House in Boston at noon today to protest the Trump Administration’s policy…Continue Reading →
‘Save EMF’ Building Rally: ‘What Mr. DiGiovanni Is Doing May Be Legal, But It’s Not Right’
“Displacement is not business, it’s disruption,” Sophia Belle, who had been a tenant of the EMF building, told a crowd at the rally to “Save EMF” at Brattle Plaza in…Continue Reading →
Trying To Imagine The Unimaginable Number Of 37,000 Americans Dead From Guns In A Year
How can we imagine the unimaginable number of people who die from guns in the United States each year? Federal statistics say the tally was 37,863 people lost in 2016,…Continue Reading →
‘How Does It End?’ 22 Annual Mother’s Day Walk For Peace In Dorchester
“Twenty-two years and still no resolution to our children being lost to gun violence,” said Elisha Ross of Dorchester, whose son Michael Ross was killed by gunfire on March 30.…Continue Reading →
At Breast Pump Hackathon, Asking Why Visions Of The Future So Often Ignore Mothers And Babies
The idea for the Make The Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon originated with a bad day in a bathroom at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab. After the birth of…Continue Reading →
Handing Out Roses Around Boston Common To Remember Hundreds Of Black Americans Killed By Police
On Friday afternoon, in the rain, Cedric Douglas and two collaborators stood out on Boylston Street, along the Boston Common, and handed out roses to passers-by. Attached to each stem…Continue Reading →
Carpenters Union Protests Nauset Retail And Apartment Project In Cambridge
Two men from the New England Regional Council of Carpenters protested today outside the Cambridge site where Needham-based Nauset Construction is building an apartment and retail complex for owner 3MJ…Continue Reading →
‘Enough!’ Photos From The March For Our Lives: Boston
Tens of thousands of people participated in today’s March For Our Lives: Boston. The protest in support of gun control was part marches across the nation organized in response to…Continue Reading →